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How They Got Over
African Americans and the Call of the Sea
By Greenfield, Eloise
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06028-991-1 978-0-06028-992-8
- Publisher
- Amistad HarperCollins
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2003
Gr 3-5 Eight seafaring African Americans from the last 250 years are profiled: Paul Cuffe, James Forten, Robert Smalls, Matthew Henson, recreational scuba diver Shirley Lee, Evelyn Fields of NOAA, and Michelle Howard of the U.S. Navy. The title refers not to their crossing the ocean, but to the meaning in the gospel song "How I Got Over"-in...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2003
The black Americans profiled here all turned to the sea as a means of "getting over"—finding a way, as in the gospel song "How I Got Over," to get on with one's life "in spite of pain, grief and enormous obstacles." In the first section ("Profiles"), seven men and women, introduced chronologically—from Paul Cuffe (1759–1817), a merchant who built boats and sailed them commercially, to Commander Michelle Janine Howard (1960 ), appointed to work with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2000—not o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
